21L.423 / 21M.223J Introduction to Anglo-American Folkmusic, Fall 2002
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Author(s)
Perry, Ruth
Ruckert, George
Alternative Title
Introduction to Anglo-American Folkmusic
Date Issued
December 2002
Abstract
This subject will introduce students to scholarship about folk music of the British Isles and North America. We will define the qualities of "folk music" and "folk poetry," including the narrative qualities of ballads, and we will try to recreate the historical context in which such music was an essential part of everyday life. We will survey the history of collecting, beginning with Pepys' collection of broadsides, Percy's Reliques and the Gow collections of fiddle tunes. The urge to collect folk music will be placed in its larger historical, social and political contexts. We will trace the migrations of fiddle styles and of sung ballads to look at the broad outlines of the story of collecting folk music in the USA, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Subjects
folk music
music production
music transmission
music preservation
British Isles
seventeenth century
folk revival
balladry
fiddle styles
21L.423
21M.223J
21M.223
Folk music -- United States
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section
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